We're deviating from our regular schedule to bring you the best new business ideas spotted in the last 12 months—smart concepts that will continue to provide entrepreneurs with plenty of opportunities in 2009. The last of our 2008 selections features the most popular category on Springwise: food & beverage. Ten of our favourites from a long list of innovative ideas:

1. Graze — Healthy snacks, delivered by mail in serving sizes
2. Geschmackslabor — Taste lab restaurant lets customers add flavour to their meals
3. Honibe — Honey without the mess
4. Catch a Piece of Maine — Adopt a Maine lobster trap
5. Bin Ends — Wine tastings via Twitter
6. Tcho — Next-gen chocolate makers
7. Pink Flamingo Pizza — Balloon-enabled pizza picnic delivery
8. WineSide — Wine by the trial-sized tube
9. Morsels — Bakery focuses on bite-size treats
10. Sonntagmorgen — A customized cup of joe

Bonus | And three more that we just had to squeeze in:

• Kids Konserve — Reusable lunch kit for kids
• Volute — Single-serve wine flaunts its portability (and eco credentials)
• Eatbite — Mapping restaurants by photos of their dishes
  

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We're deviating from our regular schedule to bring you the best new business ideas we've spotted over the last 12 months; smart concepts that will continue to provide entrepreneurs with plenty of inspiration and opportunities in 2009! Featuring both startups and new concepts by established players, here's our pick of media & publishing ideas:

1. MagCloud — Magazine publishing for everyone & every niche
2. Faber & Faber — Out-of-print books, printed on demand
3. Flat World Knowledge — Open source approach to textbook publishing
4. Blurb — Marketplace for book makers
5. Kidmondo & BabyChapters — From online baby blogs to printed baby books
6. HarperCollins — Publisher hopes crowds will spot next bestseller
7. Relay & WWF — All-you-can-read digital magazines
8. Random House — Selling books by the chapter
9. Kluster — Crowdsourcing platform
   
10. Offbeat Guides, Tripwolf, HSBC & Dorling Kindersley — Personalized travel guides

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We're deviating from our regular schedule to bring you the best new business ideas we've spotted over the last 12 months—smart concepts that will continue to provide entrepreneurs with plenty of opportunities in 2009. Check out our 10 favourite lifestyle & leisure ideas:

1. vibrantBrains — Brain gyms for baby boomers
2. Tikitag — Connecting online & off with RFID for the masses
3. Hello Health — Platform for healthcare 2.0
4. checkyourimage.com — Your very own focus group: personal image appraisals
5. SavvyAuntie — Parenting site aimed at non-parents
6. Drop Shots Tennis — Miniature tennis for pint-sized players
7. After Work Parties, Granny Boots — Weeknight clubbing for the 9—5 crowd
8. Sarah's Smash Shack — Paying to break stuff at the smash shack
9. SNIF Tag — RFID collar tag helps dog owners meet new friends
10. Maggie & Rose, Cupcake — Members' clubs for moms

We're deviating from our regular schedule to bring you the best new business ideas we've spotted over the last 12 months—smart concepts that will continue to provide entrepreneurs with plenty of opportunities. Aiming to sell stuff to consumers in 2009? Be inspired by our 10 favourite (online and offline) retail concepts:

1. Filippa K — Swedish fashion brand launches its own secondhand store
2. Gerbola Vin — Wine selling & storytelling
3. Fashionology LA — Retailer helps tweens make their own clothes
4. Chocri — Custom-made chocolate bars
5. HOJO — Health and wellness shop focuses on seniors
6. Foodzie — An Etsy for artisanal food
7. Lush — Lush brings back discontinued products on demand
8. Naked Wines — Online farmers' market for small wine producers
9. BLANKbottle — Winery lets customers set prices
10. Myfab — Furniture shopping with the crowds

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We're deviating from our regular schedule to bring you the best new business ideas we've spotted over the last 12 months—smart concepts that will continue to provide entrepreneurs with plenty of opportunities in 2009. Next up: our 10 favourite fashion & beauty ideas, each of which taps into a current consumer trend:

1. Yakkay — Stylish helmets for urban cyclists
2. Transitional Sizes — Clothing rental for size-changing dieters
3. Catwalk Genius — Adopt-a-designer program for crowdfunded fashion
4. Sneakart — Customizing sneakers with removable stickers
5. Stitsh — Click to buy: fashion blog is a street version of shopping mags
6. Keds & Zazzle — Design your own Keds & sell them on Zazzle
7. Tomboy Trades — Steel-toes and tool belts for women
8. colorOn and Eye Majic — Press-on eye shadow kits
9. Diesel & Roskilde — Limited-edition festival jeans
10. Dondup — Bringing a dye back from the dead: luxury jeans tinted a long dormant blue

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